William Appleton (politician)

William Appleton ( born November 16, 1786 in Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † February 15, 1862 in Brookline, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1861 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Appleton was a cousin of Congressman Nathan Appleton ( 1779-1861 ). He attended schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In the meantime, he worked as a store clerk in Temple (New Hampshire). In 1807 he moved to Boston in Massachusetts, where he worked in the trade. He also became involved in the banking industry. From 1832 to 1836 he headed the local branch of the Boston United States Bank. Politically Appleton was a member of the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1850 he was the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Atkins Eliot on 4 March 1851. After a re-election in the fifth district, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. In 1854 and 1856 he applied unsuccessfully to his whereabouts or in his return to the Congress.

In the elections of 1860 Appleton was elected as a Unionist in the fifth district of his state back to the Congress. There he broke on March 4, 1861 Ansom Burlingame. But he could only exercise until his resignation on health-related September 27, 1861 its mandate. This period was overshadowed by the now broken out civil war. William Appleton died on February 15, 1862 in Brookline and was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.